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Mechanical design
Designing a drivetrain you can maintain in a field
Why steering and propulsion were combined into a modular Dual-Axis Drive subsystem, and what that means for iteration.
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Research & insights from the workshop and the field.
Technical writing on agricultural robotics, UV-C research, mechanical design, navigation and prototype development. The entries below are planned topics, not published articles.
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UV-C research
What laboratory UV-C testing does and does not tell you
Notes on the gap between controlled exposure conditions and a moving platform in a real crop canopy.
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Autonomous navigation
Supervised autonomy as an engineering discipline
How the current prototype keeps an operator in the loop, and how autonomy is being extended stage by stage.
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Field testing
Field notes: first passes with the integrated platform
Observations from early field runs of the integrated mobility, perception and UV-C subsystems.
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Robotics
Building a platform instead of a robot
The interface decisions that determine whether future tools can be added without a redesign.
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Agricultural automation
Where robotics fits in Indian precision agriculture
A view of the constraints — field geometry, labour, crop practice — that shape what a useful agricultural robot looks like.
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